Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

[daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com>]

On 26 February 2010 22:23, Ward Poelmans <wpoely86@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 18:50, daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As a simple idea, cron task starts rsnapshot configured however.  When
>> this is done, backup is tarballed, and tarball is given as like, say,
>> 440 permissions, where users are in some useful 'backup' group, then
>> while tarball can be read to be passed across server, if tarball is
>> extracted, user has no more privs then they have on the system anyway
>> (I'm not saying chmod -R).  Then local tarball can be removed or
>> whatever.
>
> It's not a bad idea, but you need enough free space on the client to
> backup the entire system (which for me is not the case). Secondly,
> every backup you do is a full backup as rsnapshot needs to access a
> backup todo a incremental backup. You could mess around with something
> like sshfs but's it's not great either. A straight rsync between
> client and server could do it but it would suprise me if this doesn't
> already exist in some form.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ward
>
Thanks for the feedback.  For now, as you may easily guess, this case
does not apply to me personally since I mostly just admin my own
personal machine.  But I think you raise very relevant difficulties
with my suggestion for a practical administrative case for multiple
machines.

~daid